This is a good scripture (Phip. 1:12): “Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have turned out for the furtherance of the gospel.”
It is encouraging to know that all things are working for good when you are suffering. But to know your suffering is furthering Jesus’s gospel (the covenant of life in the spirit), that makes you feel like you can run the extra mile.
I know that was Paul’s testimony about his imprisonment for Christ’s sake and what it did for others, but I think a lot of people’s suffering has furthered the gospel. Every time someone is encouraged in the Lord by another’s steadfastness during a trial, it furthers the gospel. It makes me think of the tract, “Trials are Opportunities”. Trials are opportunities to further Jesus’s Gospel.
Jerry